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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

9 days

Is it not at least slightly curious that the people who spent decades lecturing us about "microaggressions" now insist on waving an "Arafat scarf" in the face of Jews?

National Post

@nationalpost

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MPP Sarah Jama defies order to remove keffiyeh in Ontario legislature

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John Robson

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1 year

Just received a 2nd peremptory notice from the City of Ottawa demanding to know what use I make of my house, threatening heavy fines for non-compliance, inaccurate answers or unapproved vacancy. My home is my castle. When did it become Caesar's business how often I'm here?

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John Robson

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4 years

Just got the cottage electric bill. Power used: none at all Charge to deliver said no power: $139.02 Regulatory charges: 75 cents HST on delivery of nothing whatsoever: $18.17 Rebate so I won't be cross at high power prices: $44.45 Logic to any of above: 0

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 years

So we're all in this together, huh? Some of us just happen to collect $240,000/year on top of our pension to pitch in. It really is different in the public sector.

Retired Gen. Hillier receives $20,000 a month to head vaccine distribution task force — Ford...

nationalpost.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

17 days

Hey, Minister Joly, if someone fired a bunch of these at Canada but didn't kill anyone this time, would you "take the win" and not respond?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

My point is we were promised vaccination meant an end to lockdowns. So we got vaccinated. & lockdowns didn't end. I"m not getting a new experimental shot every 3 to 6 months in return for hollow pledges. At some point we have to let our immune systems do what they evolved to do.

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@KenBoessenkool

2 years

@thejohnrobson Not sure I follow your point. Is there a strategy other than vaccines you would suggest?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Serious question: if the problem is the unvaccinated, why are the vaccinated being locked down?

Steve Lafleur

@Steve_Lafleur

2 years

Serious question: is anyone planning for the possibility that we'll have another few years of voluntarily unvaccinated people swamping hospital capacity as new variants emerge? Seems like something we should have figured out how to deal with by now.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

Ontario NDP MPP calls for abolition of lsrael in response to Hamas/Islamic Jihad terrorist massacres: "end all occupation of Palestinian land". Is her party comfortable with that stand?

Sarah Jama

@SarahJama_

7 months

I'm reflecting on my role as a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system, and I ask that all politicians do the same. #FreePalastine

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John Robson

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3 years

You want budget advice? OK. 1) Actually table a budget 2) Don't drive the government into insolvency with reckless spending 3) Don't drive the private sector into bankruptcy with reckless taxation Any questions? Class dismissed.

Chrystia Freeland

@cafreeland

3 years

Inspired by the group of Ontario high school students that I met through @CIVIX_Canada to hear their suggestions for Budget 2021. CIVIX's own 2021 Student Budget Consultation survey has launched so students across 🇨🇦 can also participate! ➡️

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John Robson

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11 months

Mulroney's greatest political weakness, desperate need for Laurentian elite approval, still grips him. He actually praises @JustinTrudeau because COVID was "the greatest challenge" any PM faced "in 156 years". Bigger than World War II? What a blatherskite.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the decision to cut another billion dollars out of the Canadian military, and deny you’re doing it, is more proof that we are governed by profoundly unserious people.

John Robson: Cutting $1B From Defence Budget Yet More Proof That Canada Is No Longer a Serious...

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Trying to be fair-minded, & not think the worst. But is it usual for a bail hearing judge to say "This community has already been impacted enough by some of the criminal activity... you took part in and even led"? Do they typically assume charges are true in such hearings?

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John Robson

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5 years

What about putting her in a position where that recording turned out to be crucial in refuting attacks on her testimony and character? Was that "honorable"? Where would we now be if she hadn't done it?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

"Did the world-famous “siege of Ottawa” have a death toll? Did absolutely anything have to be rebuilt when it was over? Did anyone even make off with a manhole cover?"

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

9 months

Government can make us all healthy, wealthy and wise, fix the weather and force us to stop being bigots. But it can't check that the trains it's buying fit on the rails it's buying. That sort of thing is too much to ask of them. via @ottawacitizen

Ottawa Euro-designed LRT vehicles not built for city's U.S. style tracks

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Yes, they really did say vaccines meant you couldn't get COVID. I don't mind them changing their story if the evidence warrants... but I do mind denying it ever happened.

Michael P Senger

@michaelpsenger

2 years

Virtually every top official and media personality in charge of the response to COVID insisted the vaccine prevents infection and transmission—not just symptoms. These are the people who claim to worry about “misinformation.”

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

Surely a turning point in the revolt of the elites. A thoughtful, moderate policy, announced after much soul-searching and supported by a large majority of Canadians, is denounced in hysterically intolerant ad hominem (or ad feminam) terms by a chorus of our supposed betters.

National Post

@nationalpost

3 months

Jamie Sarkonak: Danielle Smith brings reason in the face of hysterical gender activists

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

As so often, @JustinTrudeau is doing whatever he accuses others of doing, weaponizing an issue for partisan gain at the expense of fostering division.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

Canada’s mass graves scandal is looking more like a modern-day blood libel

To this day, no graves have been found, no bodies uncovered. What Canada has experienced is less the discovery of historic colonial atrocities, and more the frenzy of a modern-day blood libel. Will...

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

P.S. Please respect my family's privacy while I exploit them relentlessly to boost my failing political fortunes.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

8 months

Nous sommes allés à l’école en vélo, ce matin, pour la rentrée de Didi. Ella retourne elle aussi à l’école aujourd’hui, comme bien d’autres enfants au pays. Je souhaite une belle année scolaire à tout le monde. Allons-y... c’est parti!

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 months

Imagine the outrage if someone called for killing Muslims anywhere and everywhere. But when it's Jews it's just yawn yeah well whatever like free Palestine, man.

National Post

@nationalpost

4 months

ISIS spokesman calls for global attacks on Jews: "Kill them wherever you find them"

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

15 days

And modest too? "I see myself as a passionate, creative and courageous woman, a hands-on, present, deeply loving mother, a devoted daughter, an intrepid sportswoman... a loyal friend, a fierce advocate and steadfast ally" via @mtlgazette

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's book reads like a motherly chat about mental health

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 years

PM Trudeau on Defence Minister Sajjan: "He continues to have my confidence that he is the right person for the job.” Based on what standards, one wonders. What sort of performance would undermine Trudeau's confidence in a defence minister?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

5 years

This is one of those things where you think "He can't really have said that". So you check before retweeting... and it turns out to be real. Imagine the fate of a politician who said men entrepreneurs tend to make better choices than "others".

Maxime Bernier

@MaximeBernier

5 years

Note also what Trudeau says: “...because women entrepreneurs tend to make better choices than others.” Feminism used to mean equal rights for all. Now it’s a radical left-wing ideology trying to impose a new kind of discrimination. That’s why I’m not a feminist.

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John Robson

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5 years

Ahem. It's not the job of the AG of Canada to expose serious, persistent attempts to interfere with the administration of justice in Canada? Whose job is it? The PCO clerk? The PM? What if they're the ones doing it? Who do you think should have blown the whistle if not the AG?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

"'This isn’t just about picking a team,' said Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin... 'Our hearts are big enough to care for both.'" Wow. Big enough for people trying to slaughter Jews, and Jews trying not to be slaughtered. What moral giants you must be.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Here's a disquieting thought: How many people who followed the convoy issue at the time & are now following the inquiry are satisfied that they were given a reliable picture by the legacy media of what was happening in the streets & the corridors of power while it was happening?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

"the government’s lawyers made the extraordinary argument that what politicians say should be ignored" via @nationalpost

Rupa Subramanya: Despite being on the way out, travel mandates warrant judicial oversight

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 month

At times it really does seem they are trying to drive us insane: "The China inquiry tomorrow opens its public investigation... Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault, the 1st to testify, earlier told MPs he saw no evidence of Chinese interference but acknowledged he didn’t…

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

You're the victim of misinformation. @acoyne said so. Everyone on his side relies on facts. Everyone who disagrees is crazy. There was a coup. & Nazis. There still is an emergency. These are facts. Facts facts facts!!! Any questions & we freeze your bank account. Just in case.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 years

This story quotes one protestor/university TA who plans to make it "part of their credit" for students to attend a blockade. If the university's cool with that plan it's another striking instance of a revolt of the elites. Imagine someone making students attend a counter-protest.

CBC Canadian News

@CBCCanada

4 years

Indigenous solidarity protests shut down Hamilton, Niagara GO trains, block Highway 6

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 years

It's not a sacrifice unless it's voluntary. They had these things taken away from them through state compulsion. Perhaps wisely, perhaps not. But let's call things what they are.

Kelly Grant

@kellygrant1

3 years

We don't thank teenagers enough for the sacrifices they've made during this pandemic. They've given up proms, graduations, school sports, clubs and social lives, all to save seniors they've mostly never met. By @calphonso

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

At what point and in what way did Trudeau "apologize"? Or is the CBC just running interference for him?

CBC News

@CBCNews

7 months

#BREAKING : Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized on behalf of Canada after a veteran of Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces was included in a parliamentary event last week honouring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

Wow. This story just keeps on giving. And remember, our government's priority wasn't preventing the espionage, it was preventing Canadians from finding out about it.

Michael Ron Bowling

@mrbcyber

2 months

Canadian spy suspect led viral research project in Wuhan during time virus is believed to have leaked from the lab.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

I notice that our Prime Minister is very free with advice to Israel on what it should not do to ensure its security. But he has little to say on what it should do. (And given his record on our security, it's hardly surprising.)

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

"The single biggest item the government needs more money for is an extra $3.2 billion to service the national debt." So the feds are borrowing more because they borrowed too much. Gee. I wonder how this one ends.

Ottawa wants billions more for debt, defence, Indigenous kids - National | Globalnews.ca

The single biggest item the government needs more money for is an extra $3.2 billion to service the national debt.

globalnews.ca

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

How do you actually know any of that stuff? It could be true. But if you're a journalist not a government shill, you'd be worrying about and looking into possible abuses of power more eagerly than at possible errors by those not in power. Wouldn't you?

Dale Smith

@journo_dale

2 years

It’s not retroactive. No assets were seized. It did not target small donors. The RCMP is already working to unfreeze the few accounts it did freeze because the point of the freezing has passed now that the occupation has ended. Just stop.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 years

NDP statement on flight PS752 condemns "Trump's actions" while saying nothing about the government of Iran shooting down the plane.

NDP STATEMENT ON REVELATIONS ABOUT THE UKRAINIAN FLIGHT 752 TRAGEDY

Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement on the most recent revelations about the Ukrainian Flight 752 tragedy:

www.ndp.ca

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

9 months

In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.

John Robson: So we need more immigrants ... to build homes for all the immigrants?

nationalpost.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

6 years

Those who support it should do likewise. How much per tonne will be enough for the emissions reductions you say are necessary and how do we get other countries to do it too? If you can't or won't say, you don't have a plan either, just an attitude.

Gary Mason🇺🇦

@garymasonglobe

6 years

Those who oppose the carbon tax should reveal their plans to save the planet

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

9 months

So we need to bring in immigrants to build houses for the immigrants we bring in to build houses for... um... hang on...

M.R. Binnion

@mrbinnion

9 months

Canada ‘absolutely’ can’t build more houses without more immigrants, minister says - National |

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John Robson

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6 months

In my latest National Post column I say the tendency of Western feminists to side with Hamas, even denying systematic rape during the Oct. 7 attack, reveals starkly a very dark side to progressive ideology that boasts of love but screams hate.

The very dark side of progressivism — John Robson

In my latest National Post column I say the tendency of Western feminists to side with Hamas , to the point of denying systematic rape during the Oct. 7 attack, reveals starkly that something is...

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

"avg elementary-school teacher salary in 2021–22 was $94,100... avg 2nd-school teacher made $96,600.... top pay for Ontario teachers, just under $102,000, is the highest in Canada." So they squeeze even more from taxpayers who make less. It's how much they care... about…

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John Robson

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1 year

How consulting works: The government pays a guy it already pays to tell it a thing it already thinks. Including some soldiers supported the convoy which was racist so the army is too. (And some soldiers supported the convoy so it's racist. Cheque please.)

Alberta professor to assess level of white supremacy in military

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

5 years

So it's "almost entrapment" when, beleaguered by powerful people, you collect evidence you can produce when they deny your claims and trash your character. I'd call that claim "almost desperate". And indeed "almost despicable".

Tonda MacCharles

@TondaMacC

5 years

Lib MP Wayne Easter says He is "angry" about JWR taping Wernick, calls it "almost entrapment" with her side sounding "scripted." Thinks she should be out of caucus. Wonders if Philpott has "bee used." Says trust is gone.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 months

One is tempted to say the same of another Trudeau term in office.

National Post

@nationalpost

4 months

Trudeau says potential second Trump presidency 'won’t be easy' for Canada

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

We really are governed by gibbering idiots.

Brad Vis

@BradleyVis

3 months

📺WATCH: Trudeau's Small Business Minister says the government is lowering taxes for small businesses. Yet when I asked what taxes they were lowering, she couldn't answer. #smallbusiness #entrepreneurs #cdnpoli

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John Robson

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1 year

Am I the only person who thinks that with the federal public service having expanded by 31% and its cost having risen by $151 billion under @JustinTrudeau , it's not a great time for them to make a self-pitying demand for a lot more money?

PSAC says strike will begin Wednesday if no deal reached with federal government

ottawasun.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

You must realize that their plan, openly declared for years, was to make gasoline so expensive we stopped using it. We're still using it so, by their logic, prices aren't nearly high enough. And everyone who went along with climate alarmism to get along had better get smart.

Aaron Gunn

@AaronGunn

2 years

Is now really the right time for a **SECOND** carbon tax?! Apparently, some politicians think gas prices still aren't high enough... Here's what you need to know 👉

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John Robson

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2 years

@JustinTrudeau has no sense of occasion b/c it's all about him, always & anywhere. That he's meant to be in mourning for some dumb old Queen, & reflecting on serious matters from governance to human mortality, doesn't matter. He's being cool & having a good time. End of story.

Lorrie Goldstein

@sunlorrie

2 years

PMO confirms clip on social media showing @justintrudeau singing with others on Saturday night at the Corinthia Hotel in London prior to the Queen's funeral on Monday is real. Describes it, as did the @globeandmail & the pianist, Gregory Charles, in a positive way. You decide.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Yeah, that one's very personal. Unlike @JustinTrudeau linking @MelissaLantsman to the swastika. That was just good clean partisan fun.

Althia Raj

@althiaraj

2 years

Wowza. This debate is getting personal @AndrewScheer says @ElizabethMay is the only person to have been arrested for protesting and wonders how she'd feel getting her bank accounts frozen.

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John Robson

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3 months

We actually are governed by gibbering idiots.

Feds will stop investing in 'large' road projects, environment minister says | CBC News

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday the federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure — a comment that immediately drew attacks from the Opposition Conservatives...

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John Robson

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7 months

They can't, you idiot, because they don't control prices. If the cost of inputs rises, or inflation does, then grocery prices rise. Why don't you do your job, let them do theirs, and we consumers will shop where we feel well-treated?

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

7 months

Champagne says he wishes grocers were more ‘forthcoming’ on plans to stabilize prices

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

In Ukraine real munitions are raining down on civilians. In Ottawa residents claim to be traumatized by imaginary truck horns. And to think Xi Jinping considers us weak and decadent.

Candice Malcolm

@CandiceMalcolm

2 years

Phantom honking 😂

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

20 days

Because hate speech is fine here if you hate the right people.

David Jacobs

@DrJacobsRad

20 days

This is Ottawa, Canada. The question isn't whether or not this is hate speech. It is. The real question is why isn't this being prosecuted as a hate crime? #Cdnpoli #Antisemitism @bnaibrithcanada @CIJAinfo

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John Robson

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11 months

Amazing how every time there's an embarrassing story nobody told the minister, national security advisor, prime minister etc. Almost as if it were on purpose... or a fib. Either way it makes a mockery of ministerial responsibility... and our constitution.

Staff in Mendicino's office knew about Bernardo transfer months before minister did, his office...

Staff in Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino's office knew for three months that serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo would be transferred from a maximum to a medium-security prison — but didn't...

www.cbc.ca

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

5 years

The probable explanation is that they're pro-life. There are such people, you know.

Maryam Monsef

@MaryamMonsef

5 years

It’s been 11 days since I sent a letter to 12 CPC MPs who attended the anti-choice March for Life rally on Parliament Hill. Eleven days since I called on Andrew Scheer to account for the anti-choice actions of his MPs. Eleven days with no response.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

5 months

Wow. You really are a nasty shill. Can you cite examples of the Tories "gleefully" trading in "antisemitic conspiracy theories" or were you just desperate for a smear?

Dale Smith

@journo_dale

5 months

Says the party that gleefully trades in antisemitic conspiracy theories on the regular…

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

How Canadian democracy works: On August 19 someone is nominated to the Supreme Court "effective September 1" by the Prime Minister. Less than 2 weeks later with minimal scrutiny they are "confirmed" by... the Prime Minister. They can now overrule the people we elect for 27 years.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

So the federal Liberal caucus is holding a retreat to try to figure out why Canadians don't realize how great they are. Didn't they just hold one last month in PEI for the same purpose? Maybe if they spent more time fixing policy and less time navel-gazing about communications?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

10 months

Strange how no matter how much the bureaucracy swells and how many bonuses it gives itself, we're short-staffed (or overstaffed but underperforming) in every key legitimate area of government responsibility. via @nationalpost

Exclusive data reveal RCMP failing to fulfill provincial policing contracts across Canada

nationalpost.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if a typical MP could not pass a pop quiz on World War II or almost any subject, & voters & journalists don’t notice, it’s way past time we stopped letting the state run our education system.

Could a member of Parliament, and the Prime Minister in particular, pass a pop quiz on almost any...

According to the headlines Justin Trudeau has now apologized for applauding a Nazi in the Commons chamber. I’m not sure he did, or that he or the press know what an “apology” actually is. Or a great...

looniepolitics.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 months

So this piece basically says a spate of church burnings in Canada is totally mysterious and justified by mistreatment of aboriginals. If it were mosques they'd have no trouble blaming "Islamophobia" and denouncing it. Your tax dollars at work.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

It sounds incredible. But he presents evidence to which the Royal Bank really needs to respond.

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛

@ezralevant

2 years

CANCEL CULTURE: I applied for an @RBC commercial mortgage. The local banker said it was a great application and he offered me $300K more than I asked. Then the bank’s head office killed the deal — saying they don’t give loans to conservatives. Watch: 👇

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

Why not cut taxes across the board and let entrepreneurs and customers decide what should flourish? Oh right. You're meddlesome inept central planners with a hankering for photo ops.

Chrystia Freeland

@cafreeland

2 months

Local Canadian brewers are valued parts of communities across our country. Today we’re announcing additional relief and support for Canadian brewers by capping the excise duty increase for two years and cutting taxes for small craft breweries.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

"Singh blames 10 years of Conservatives, 8 years of Liberal power for housing crisis" Canadians blame Singh for last 4 years of Liberal power. Singh doesn't understand.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

Whatever else can be said about these protests (& there is a lot) surely it's remarkable how angry, foulmouthed & tormented the protestors are. They yell about justice & peace with faces twisted with hate. Why @JustinTrudeau with all his "sunny ways" isn't repelled is a mystery.

Vivian Bercovici

@VivianBercovici

2 months

WTAF is wrong with you @JustinTrudeau ? I know you're dumb but are you deaf and blind too?!? This is the sewage you have defended for five months. This is what you have emboldened with your ignorant muttering about freedoms and rights.

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John Robson

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2 years

On the plus side, the Americans noticed us. On the minus side... they noticed us

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

Do you ever get the feeling the public sector have been playing the rest of us for chumps so long they've forgotten the need to be subtle about it?

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John Robson

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1 year

Why aren't alarm bells ringing across the land? "Combined debt from both the federal government & individual provincial governments is expected to nearly double from $1.1 trillion in 2007–08... to an estimated $2.1 trillion by the end of this fiscal year."

Governments have doubled total federal-provincial debt in just 15 years: report

nationalpost.com

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

18 days

Maybe the major organization representing Muslims in Canada doesn't respect our history, culture and values, but hopes instead to turn it into another lovely Middle Eastern nation of the sort they left to come here.

Vivian Bercovici

@VivianBercovici

19 days

Maybe the major organization representing Muslims in 🇨🇦 should show more respect for and interest in Canadian history, culture and values before proposing that we adopt their suggestions for what should be recognized and taught in the public school system. You want to teach about…

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

10 months

Opinion: The one big growth industry of the Trudeau years has been bureaucracy

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

I found this so strange that I went and checked their website. And it's true that they have not posted anything there about these brazen anti-Semitic rallies. What can possibly explain it? via @truenorthcentre

Anti-hate advocates mum on anti-Israel protests raging across Canada

Amid nationwide demonstrations by supporters of Hamas, one federally-funded “anti-hate” organization has been apparently silent regarding antisemitic incidents and threats faced by Jewish communities.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

Up to a point. But let us not adopt the habitual conservative defeatism of saying oh well, our opponents were bold enough to pursue their dreams but we lack resolve so I guess we just have to live with their vision. If Trudeau can change Canada, we can change it back.

Sean Speer

@Sean_Speer

3 months

Trudeau’s legacy is a truly changed Canada This week’s poll that only 3 percent of Canadians believe that Justin Trudeau’s ongoing leadership of the Liberal Party is in the party’s interest is a virtually unprecedented public indictment of a sitting party leader. At this point,…

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

Are people allowed to quit this union if they find its positions abhorrent, or are they trapped in it as a condition of working for a government university?

CUPE Local 3906

@cupe_3906

7 months

In response to backlash over a message of solidarity with Palestinians, the Executive of CUPE Local 3906 stands united against colonial occupation and state violence and has developed the following statement with profound care. Read in full here:

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 year

How typical is this of @JustinTrudeau 's spoiled brat style? If he can't appoint an Ethics Commissioner related to a Minister guilty of an ethics breachs, he just won't appoint one and there won't be any investigations at all. Since who needs ethics anyway?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Let me get this straight: MPs are too scared to debate a vital issue not because police aren't clearing protesters but because they are? Ottawa City Council dissolves in tears? A lot of snowflakes on the ground in Ottawa these days. PS Didn't UK Parliament meet during the Blitz?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 year

Canada's capital occupied! Ottawa under siege! City terrorized! Trauma and insurrection! Invoke the... oh wait. They're left-wing. Never mind.

National Post

@nationalpost

1 year

Picketing public servants disrupt Ottawa traffic, block building access

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

What really sticks in my craw is that you know for certain that if he needed treatment Holland would not sit in line. The well-connected jump the queue; the well-heeled go abroad; the rest suffer. Qu'ils mangeant de la brioche.

National Post

@nationalpost

2 months

Shawn Whatley: Health minister's berating of suffering patients was downright cruel

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau accusing India of carrying out a “hit” in Canada needs to be backed by evidence the public is allowed to see rather than his usual hyperbolic petulance.

John Robson: How the India Incident Was Handled Is a Diplomatic Disaster

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 year

In a speech to the Liberal caucus @JustinTrudeau said "Our universal public system has long been a model to the world". But if so, can he name one single country that ever tried to imitate it anywhere? Or is he just a blatherskite?

Poilievre challenges Trudeau to fix 'broken' Canada or 'get out of the way'

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 years

Seriously, can we stop saying "experts" in headlines? Even "some experts" would be an improvement. "Three people I phoned" would be even more accurate. But "people I phoned because I knew they'd endorse my opinion" is what it really means 9 times out of 10 ("experts say").

Globalnews.ca

@globalnews

4 years

Canada’s coronavirus response can shift economy’s direction to low-carbon: experts

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

We have governments that seriously think they can end poverty, abolish war and fix the weather... but they can't get rid of Daylight Savings Time. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

9 days

You work hard to elect "conservatives" in Canada and what do you get? Same as if you let other people elect radicals.

Rebel News

@RebelNewsOnline

9 days

Alberta's education minister tells Rebel News' Alex Dhaliwal ( @WestCdnFirst ) the province will be employing anti-racism initiatives for elementary students in their curriculum. "The elementary curriculum for social studies will focus on that," he says.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

In case you're not a political junkie but somehow read this thread, Dwivedi joined the PMO Jan. 15 "as a senior adviser", giving a ghastly insight into the tone within the PMO and its "sunny ways". But also our much broader cult of total self-indulgence.

Politics Briefing: PMO adds another policy expert with hiring of pundit Supriya Dwivedi

The former radio talk-show host has appeared on CBC and CTV, and written for publications including The Globe and Mail

www.theglobeandmail.com

Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

3 months

Hi there @supriyadwivedi Happy to see me? Anything professional to say? Oh, and say hi to @JustinTrudeau if you're inclined to. Seems like you're the type to really hit it off with him.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

8 months

Our nanny state can't balance the budget, field a military or control inflation, but has the time & energy to try to block a product we relied on safely for decades that its private US maker finds a way to provide anyway. Is this a great country or what?

WD-40 says it will not be banned, will change formula to satisfy Ottawa's new rules

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 month

So the authorities knew about Chinese communist election meddling. They just didn't care. Is it complicity, mediocrity or both?

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

You do realize there are legitimate and illegitimate uses of the judicial power, just as there are of the legislative and executive, right?

Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@acoyne

7 months

Ah yes, as I expected, a reliably conservative fulminator against judicial activism angrily protesting at — well, no, he seems perfectly content for the court to stomp all over Parliament this time.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

7 months

Anyone else getting the feeling the process is the punishment here? She spends how much on legal fees, spends how much time in jail, experiences how much stress, then a week before it goes to trial they drop it.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

5 months

The Toronto police now say it's cool. But imagine if a Freedom Convoy protester had done it.

National Post

@nationalpost

5 months

#ICYMI - 'I’ll put you six feet deep': Masked pro-Palestinian protester threatens Toronto police officer. The protest took place outside a Zara store. 'This makes us all unsafe,' former Canadian Senator Linda Frum tweeted.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

25 days

So we're down to I was just the Prime Minister, I couldn't do anything?

Steven Chase

@stevenchase

25 days

Only action available to Trudeau as party leader would have been to overturn Han Dong’s nomination, he tells inquiry. Trudeau tells inquiry he felt there was not sufficient evidence for him to do this.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

How many will now retract the claim? Strange. I hear nothing.

Vivian Krause

@FairQuestions

2 years

WOW. Very troubling that so many Members of Parliament lacked the good judgement to hold off on drawing conclusions until this had been properly investigated.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

1 year

Alexandre Trudeau seems to admire China's basic dictatorship, and says there was nothing to hide about the CCP donation to the Trudeau Foundation. But he can't explain why they hid it anyway? They're still too arrogant to grasp that they're in trouble.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

3 months

Does anyone not face-down in this trough think we're getting our money's worth? And how can the public service be so big, well-paid, and job-secure yet at this point be basically unable to function? If you tried to design such a system, could you?

Average pay for public service executives increased by over $500 million since 2015

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

6 years

I'm not sure he knows what diversity means. (Hint: It doesn't mean people who all look different but think the same way.)

Lorrie Goldstein

@sunlorrie

6 years

Trudeau believes that diversity leads to 'a form of entropy' meaning a gradual decline into disorder? I thought he said diversity was our strength. I think it's more likely the issue here is that Trudeau doesn't know what entropy means.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

20 days

Either the head of CSIS is lying for no known reason or the PM is lying to cover up his indifference to or complicity in CCP election meddling. It's obvious which, so the only questions are whether we care enough to do anything and whether we can.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

6 months

A synagogue is firebombed and Trudeau denounces "Islamophobia" and expresses dismay that Canada and its leaders have let him down. He has never looked more out of his depth.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

4 months

I wonder how many of those who defended massive immigration as good for the economy will stop defending it now that it's clear it's not.

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

4 months

Canada stuck in ‘population trap,’ needs to reduce immigration, bank economists say

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 years

Hear that, Tories? You risk losing all your Mark Carney voters if you actually elect a conservative leader. Disaster. Big tent empties. End of string of election victories under timid centrist banner. Time for Erin O'Two.

Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@acoyne

2 years

And… if the Tories wander off into the weeds by electing Poilievre leader, a lot of Conservatives who couldn’t stomach Trudeau would defect to Carney. In a heartbeat.

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John Robson

@thejohnrobson

2 months

It's not just "drift". Ideas have consequences and something malevolent lurks at the heart of left-wing thinking. I know you've been a life-long leftist and I know it's because it often seems superficially nicer. But what you're now seeing is the real thing and it's not pretty.

Terry Glavin 格立文

@TerryGlavin

2 months

@Sean_Speer As I have been saying for ages - for my own amusement as much as anything else - the Left's drift into "woke" politics is of a piece with the Left's drift away from working-class concerns into to the more frivolous preoccupations of the bourgeoisie.

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